tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409482909880290151.post7889025139874000685..comments2019-01-11T13:21:48.100+01:00Comments on EL KAOS UT: Ukraine should stop holding journalists captive, hurting them (Russian FM)xronoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13107445158803745642noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409482909880290151.post-54275936197457988442014-06-16T18:49:37.475+02:002014-06-16T18:49:37.475+02:00The captured reporters of the Zvezda television ch...The captured reporters of the Zvezda television channel were beaten up after detention, said Krasnaya Zvezda media holding director, Alexei Pimanov....<br /><br /> According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the correspondents, Yevgeny Davydov and Nikita Konashenkov, were released in Dnepropetrovsk on June 16 and are now returning to Moscow.<br /><br />&quot;The guys were beaten up. Our correspondent Yevgeny Davydov now suffers from partial loss of hearing,&quot; Pimanov told Interfax on Monday evening.<br /><br />&quot;Neither a ransom, nor a swap was involved. We just rescued the guys,&quot; Pimanov said. Correspondent Yevgeny Davydov and sound engineer Nikita Konashenkov were detained by the Ukrainian law enforcement people in the Dnipropetrovsk region on June 14. It emerged on June 15 that the journalists were being held in the justice department building in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The Zvezda television management got in touch with one of the journalists by phone.<br /><br />The Zvezda reporters arrived in Ukraine on an official mission after producing their reporter&#39;s cards. Their mission was to last until June 14. On June 16, representatives of the Dnepropetrovsk regional state administration handed the reporters over to an aid to Russian naval attache Eduard Belashov in a procedure at the Dnepropetrovsk regional administration&#39;s headquarters attended by more than 30 journalists. It was a second detention of Zvezda reporters in Ukraine of late.<br />Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_16/Zvezda-TV-journalists-were-beaten-up-after-detention-reporters-chief-9997/<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com